The Brookhaven leader., 1887-08-04
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a SUFFOCATIN0 nrc IN tenement mousse,
3l65 Archer avenue, Chicago, proved fatal
TO several persons on the morning Of the
29th. Nine persons were killed or fatally
injured, Including fireman, who fell into
the building while attempting to rescue q
woman and her child who were both burned
in the flames.
CoTToN broke SO points in New York on
the 29th, due to q break Of points In Liv-
erpool.
ELEVEN new cases of yellow fever and
two deaths we're reported at Key West,
Fla, on the 2Sth.
JOSEPH RICH, farmer, together with his
wife, baby and wife's mother, attempted
to cross the railroad track ahead OF pas
senger train at Richmond, Ind, recently.
AS a result, he, his baby and his wife's
mother were instantly killed and Mrs. Rich
terribly mangled.
ATToRNEY-GENERAL O'BRIEN, Of New
York, has brought suit in the Supreme
Court Of that State against ex-senator
Thomas c. Platt to remove him from office
| as quarantine commissioner, on the ground
that he is a non PRESIDENT OF the metropoli.
tan police district.
BUSINESS failures for the seven days
ended July p numbered for the United
States 1872; for Canda, p; total, 1S4, COM
pared with 172 the previous week, and 1872
for the corresponding week of last year.
THREE outlaws attempted to kill a deputy
sheriff of Holt County, No, near Nodaway
station recently. They were afterward
surrounded near Corning, where they
fatally and seriously wounded two consta-
bles, one of the outlaws being captured.
The other two fed on horseback, closely
followed by a large number of armed
farmers.
BooDLER KLEIN pleaded guilty at Chi
cago on the 29th. Sentence deferred.
DISASTROUS tornado passed through the
center Of the town of David City, Neb., on
the evening of the Goth. The damage was
estimated at $500 900.
Moses A. SHAW, lumberman, of New
York, and Tonawanda, Pa, has made
an assignment both individually and as sur
viving partner of the firm Of Shaw & Co,
composed of Moses A. Shaw and Nil 7.
Chlds. The capital stock Of the firm was
| $500, 900.
WALDO r. GATES, an ex-superintendent
of the Boston & Worcester railroad, was
arrested in New York recently on a charge
of swindling numerous local merchants by
means OF forged checks and drafts.
THE six acres of Cincinnati known as
"Sloptownn were swept over by fire on
the afternoon of the Goth. Fifty cows, the
shanties Of the people and their household
effects were burned, but no lives were lost.
Several firemen and a policeman, however,
were prostrated by the heat.
THE eastbound passenger train on the
Ohio Il Mississippi railroad was wrecked
recently near Cochran, Ind, by a broken
axle. Postal Clerk Robert Baker and a
man who was walking beside the track
were instantly killed. No other serious
casualties.
DANIEL c. RYAN's cooper shop Chicago,
was destroyed by fire the other day. Loss,
$4,000.
HEAVY thunder storms occurred on the
Goth at many points of New York and New
England. In Southern New Jersey the
electric disturbance was very violent and
was accompanied by a downpour of rain.
E. l.. HARPER, the Fidelity Bank (Cincin'
nati) defaulter, has filed two suits against
Joe W. Wiltshire and Howard Eckert, doing
! business as Wiltshire, Eckert & Co. The
first is for 100000 and the second s47,0OO
These claims are mixed up with the wheat
deal affair
WILSON G. BAKER, a Chicago real estate
broker, who agreed to testify for the prose
cution in the Doodle case, has disappeared
Baker negotiated the sale OF the Reform
School property.
MATLOCK Bros. were expelled from the
West Side track at Chicago the other day
for entering their horse Rappeta in races
and making no effort to win with him.
AMOS GRIGLEY and his seven children,
living at Terre Hill, near Reading, Pa,
were taken suddenly i'll the other day,
vomiting and showing other symptoms OF
POISONING 1t was thought that some mali
cious person threw poison into the well,
and the water will be analysed.